Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Aichi

The Former Katō Family Residence Middle Gate, Kitanagoya, Aichi, is a plain Meiji yakuimon dividing the garden of a wealthy landowner's compound. Free to visit.

An imposing two-story earthen storehouse of the wealthy Katō landowners near Nagoya, this Registered Cultural Property now serves Kitanagoya's reminiscence center.

Early-Meiji timber gatehouse at the Former Kato Family Residence in Kitanagoya, Aichi, built for a landlord. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property, open free.

On Nagoya's Horikawa canal, the Former Kato Shokai Building is a 1931 office built by a Siam trader and consul, once the Siam consulate, now a Thai restaurant.

A 1920 timber farmhouse beside the moat of fortified Honsho-ji temple in Anjo, its raised altar room and sermon-ready plan earning national registration in 2024.

In Inuyama, Aichi, this late-Meiji giyofu building once housed a village bank. A dragon ridge tile, a phoenix gable, and a tall hall remain as a registered property.

Behind a Taisho mansion on Nagoya's Cultural Path stands the storehouse of actress Kawakami Sadayakko's former home, a registered reinforced-concrete kura.

A Taisho mansion built for actress Kawakami Sadayakko, restored on Nagoya's Cultural Path with stained glass and period rooms that recall her remarkable life.

The newest of the nine Yamashige buildings, raised in 1950. Inside, a room for applying overglaze decoration to ceramics survives, north of the Middle Warehouse.

Built in 1914, the old office carries a tiled irimoya roof on a Western truss. It once faced the old road and keeps traces of its merchant counter inside.

Built in 1947, this office supported the firm's postwar export growth. Facing the new road east, it has a plastered reception room and an entry porch.

A two-storey plastered building of 1914. Its ground floor takes the workshop form called a moro, where ceramics were boxed for shipment, a working storehouse.

Built in 1903, the smallest and oldest of the storehouses. Its base wears namako tilework and a large ridge tile crowns it, dense with detail for its size.

The firm's Middle Warehouse, its king-post truss left exposed inside. Used in the electric-kiln era, its build year differs between sources, as the article notes.

Built in 1889, the oldest survivor. As the Kato family annex it lodged guests, with royalty named in local records; its black south wall anchors the streetscape.

A wall running about 28 metres along the front. Its southern base is granite in a tortoiseshell pattern, finished in black plaster, paired with the annex behind.

Built in the early Showa era to store ceramics, roofed by a large king-post truss that opens a column-free floor. It stands north of the New Shed on the slope.

Tucked away in the mountain town of Shinshiro in eastern Aichi, the Former Ryotei Kikusui is a small wooden building from the late Taisho period that once served as an intimate dining house on the old Bessho Kaido post road. Despite its compact 37-square-meter footprint, it preserves an extraordinary concentration of late Taisho craftsmanship — refined alcoves, patterned glass shoji, and rare exterior plaster reliefs depicting samurai servants and sparrows in a bamboo grove. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2015, this hidden gem pairs perfectly with the adjacent former Ono Bank (now Horaikan cafe) for an off-the-beaten-path heritage visit.

Kirakutei is a two-story wooden ryokan (traditional Japanese inn) built from the late Taisho to early Showa periods, now located within the Toyota Industrial and Cultural Center in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture. Once a prestigious inn that hosted notable figures including statesman Takahashi Korekiyo and Prince Takamatsu, it was registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2013 for its refined traditional architecture and historical significance.

Discover Eikōkan (Glory Hall), the 1936 Spanish-style auditorium of Kinjo Gakuin High School in Nagoya. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property and the sole survivor of the WWII air raids on campus, it stands as a symbol of faith and resilience.